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WalrusTheSailor

Member

Registered: 2014-10-22

Posts: 10

Pacman -Ql not listing owned file

I think I have encountered a bug in Pacman, although I'm not sure which is why I want to check here first.

I'm using 'pacman -Qo' and 'pacman -Ql' to list files of packages and the owner of files, but they seem not in alignment.

[root ~]# pacman -Ql licenses
licenses /usr/
licenses /usr/share/
licenses /usr/share/licenses/
licenses /usr/share/licenses/common/

...

licenses /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL
licenses /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL2/
licenses /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL2/license.txt
licenses /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL3/
licenses /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL3/license.txt

...

[root ~]# pacman -Qo /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL/license.txt
/usr/share/licenses/common/GPL2/license.txt is owned by licenses 20140629-1

The "GPL/license.txt" is not listed by 'pacman -Ql', while it does exist and in fact is owned by the 'licenses' package according to Pacman.

arojas

Developer

From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,290

Re: Pacman -Ql not listing owned file

GPL is a symlink to GPL2

WalrusTheSailor

Member

Registered: 2014-10-22

Posts: 10

Re: Pacman -Ql not listing owned file

Ah, I see.

Thanks!